Two useful perspectives, both from Jared Bernstein (On the Economy): Inequality and Growth Me, Chuck, and Poverty Policy The second is more readable. In the first you’ll have to travel through a place where you’ll be asked to “imagine an economy…
Maps and models, maps are models
How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything (The Atlantic) It’s an interesting article, but too starry-eyed. Here are my thoughts. Google Maps still has a long way to go to be as good as “the…
Go Babbage
A difference engine in Lego!
Dune and group selection
Group selection has been a hot topic this year. Here’s a pairing from an interesting group in Binghamton (of which David Sloan Wilson is a member), and from Jonah Lehrer in a spring issue of The New Yorker. The ‘Dune…
Thinking about the 47%
Thanks to Mitt Romney, we have an incentive to think more fully about taxes. Here’s a collection of journalists and bloggers that are helping us fill in the gaps, finished off with some video and opinion Marketplace: The numbers behind…
College, and teaching
College, Still Worth It, with an amazing internal rate of return compared to other investments. Does It Pay to Become a Teacher? With a cool scale in the first plot: the fraction of a teacher’s pay compared to other college-educated…